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Somebody Purchased Story-Trains.com & Redirected It to Trump After ‘Rick and Morty’


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Final week’s episode of Rick and Morty, Season Four Episode 6, brought about lots of people to lookup Story-Practice.com, which was marketed on the finish of the episode. When it first aired, the web site didn’t go anyplace. Greater than a day after it aired, the web site was lastly redirected to a Rick and Morty web site. However earlier than that occurred, another person purchased the very comparable Story-Trains.com and redirected that web site to DonaldJTrump.com


Though Story-Practice.com Goes to ‘Rick and Morty,’ Story-Trains.com Goes to Trump’s Web site

Story-Practice.com redirects to RickandMorty.com, however Story-Trains.com now redirects to DonaldJTrump.com. Right here’s a have a look at Story-Practice.com first, adopted by the WhoIs data and extra particulars about Story-Trains.com.

When Episode 6 first aired on Could 3, visiting http://www.Story-Train.com, which was listed ultimately credit, solely introduced an error message. Right here’s how the location was marketed on the finish of the episode.

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At first, visiting the location solely introduced this message:

http://www.story-train.com

This brought about individuals to lookup the WhoIs data and take a look at to determine if the area had been bought — which it had been. In accordance with WhoIs registries, the web site Story-Practice.com was bought again in 2019 and is on Time Warner’s identify server. (Rick and Morty is distributed by Warner Bros.) WhoIs reveals that the web site story-train.com was created on March 6, 2019, up to date on March 2, 2020, and expires on March 6, 2021. A extra detailed WhoIs registration confirmed that Turner Broadcasting System owns the area. Turner owns Grownup Swim, the community that airs Rick and Morty. They registered the area Story-Practice.com again in 2019 for Episode 6.

However someday earlier than the web site Story-Practice.com was redirected to RickandMorty.com, another person registered the very comparable Story-Trains.com. This web site now mechanically redirects to DonaldJTrump.com.

The web site Story-Trains.com was bought on Could 4, 2020 in keeping with ICANN data — the day after the Rick and Morty episode aired.

The area doesn’t expire till Could 4, 2021, and it was registered by Google Domains. The contact data for the one that registered the location has been saved personal.

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In accordance with Redirect Checker, this was a “301 Moved Completely” redirect. But it surely additionally used a 302 redirect, which isn’t advisable.

Since Dan Harmon has been fairly vocal about his dislike of Trump, there’s no scarcity of irony on this very comparable web site’s redirect. It seems to be prefer it was created by a Trump fan who additionally watches Rick and Morty. They’re actually not capitalizing or profiting off Story-Trains.com, no less than not presently.

When you’re ready to see if that Story-Trains web site is ever redirected anyplace else, right here’s a have a look at what we will anticipate subsequent on Rick and Morty. Beneath is the schedule for Season 4B.

  • By no means Ricking Morty – Episode 6
  • Promortyus – Get off my face broh – Episode 7
  • The vat of acid episode – “The one with the acid vat, broth.” – Episode 8 (Could 17)
  • Childrick of Mort – “Miracle of life broth. Entire household on this one broh.” – Episode 9 (Could 24)
  • Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri – “Parenting is loopy broth. Stuff straight disappearing on this one.” (This was known as being Season Four Half 2, which doesn’t make a number of sense given the episode numbers.) – Finale, Episode 10 (Could 31)

Sure, sadly this implies there are solely three episodes left this season.

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